Japanese kamikaze soldiers prepare for suicide missions (1945)

GAUMONT BRITISH NEWSREEL (REUTERS) To license this film, visit Kamikaze soldiers attack Allied forces during the Battle of Okinawa Full Description: JAPAN: Okinawa: various: EXT AEROPLANES JAPAN Final ceremony of Jap suicide pilots leaving on only mission. Shots of captured Suicide plane. Planes diving on U.S. carrier forcemany shot down. Two Carriers hit. JAPAN. Shot of Japanese girls entertain Suicide pilots before being sent on fatal mission. KAMIKAZE pilots (suicide) walking solemnly through streets,offering up prayers, etc. AMERICA. NAVAL. Two planes crash land on carrier in Pacific. (Good). Heavy Ack-Ack. Many Jap planes shot down. Essex class carrier hit by suicide plane (C.U.) ’BUNKER HILL’ Hit. Cruiser alongside poring water into it. Some of crew being picked up out of the water. Fire fighting on deck of B.H. ......Plane landing on carrier & Bursts into fla